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Chapter 9: After the Gold Compromise (2)

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"Bang!" Huang Taiji was furious and in anger, he slapped his whole body on the table, shouting at the minister who was really making noise at the imperial stairs: "Stop my sweat!"

"The hall is noisy, how can it be?!" Huang Taiji stood up, a trace of sick flush appeared on his pale face, and he pointed at the crowd's enthusiasm just now, and the quarrel was red and his ears were scolded angrily.

After all, it was a great sweat that had been kneeling for more than a year. When he got angry, the ministers below were silent and as quiet as a cicada.

"Ben Khan has decided to negotiate peace with the Ming court!" Huang Taiji glanced at the ministers coldly and said, "This matter is Ben Khan's decision alone and has nothing to do with anyone!"

"Fan Wencheng!"

"I'm here!" Fan Wencheng, who was standing below with his eyes narrowed, opened his eyes and stepped sideways and bowed.

"Ben Khan appointed you as the Minister of Peace talks, and he can replace Amin Dabeile to negotiate with the Ming court!" Huang Taiji summoned all the ministers to discuss matters while he was sick and needed to rest in bed, so he had to make a decision once. If he did not make a decision, there would be more and more trouble.

"I accept the order!" Fan Wencheng had already known that he would be appointed as the negotiating minister. The road ahead was difficult. He was now a "Han dog" in the eyes of the Jin people, and a "traitor" in the eyes of the Ming people. Now he has become a lonely minister and a villain. What he did was to give the people of the world a peaceful and stable living environment, but is it really like this? Huang Taiji's kindness to him made him forget that he was still a Han person. The blood vessels were also bright red blood, and they were descendants of Yan and Huang, and what is the difference between the Jin people? Fan Wencheng kept comforting himself in his heart. Didn't Emperor Taizong of Tang also have the bloodline of the Hu people? Didn't Mongolia once rule the Central Plains?

Huang Taiji might know, and perhaps he had never thought that today's Qiangang's arbitrary decision was indeed the continuous growth of the strength of the Great Jin Kingdom in the next few years. He swallowed up all the Mongolian tribes in the southern desert, except for the Chahar tribes, gathered hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and the country was rich and strong. However, the relationship between Han officials and Jin and fierce ministers gradually deteriorated. Huang Taiji followed Fan Wencheng's advice to use the Han people in governing the country, which further aggravated the mutual suspicion and frame-up between the Han and Jin and Mongolian ministers. In the end, a group of Han civil servants led by Fan Wencheng, and a group of military officers led by Dai Shan and other Beile. The two sides fought openly and secretly, and scattered the country's strength in vain.

Fan Wencheng and a group of peace talks went out of Shengjing with orders to find out that Liaoyang was met by the wrecked dog. He learned about the situation of the Ming court. Then he took out Huang Taiji's intention to recall Amin to meet Shengjing, and transferred two deputy Han officials who followed Amin to his command. After all, these two people participated in many negotiations and were familiar with the negotiators who were relatively familiar with the Ming court. It was just right to stay by his side.

On the morning of the fourth day after Xiong Tingbi captured Jinzhou, Fan Wencheng only brought dozens of people and appeared in Jinzhou without escorting the army. The courage of his people surprised Xiong Tingbi and other Ming dynasties.

Since he had not brought a soldier and a soldier to come over, he still begged for peace talks and could not be too petty. Xiong Tingbi immediately ordered the soldiers to set off firecrackers and went out of the city to welcome him, giving him enough face to the Later Jin Dynasty.

However, the following words made Fan Wencheng very embarrassed. Originally, Xiong Tingbi went out to greet him personally, Fan Wencheng always wanted to say a few words of polite thanks. Unexpectedly, Huang Jin, the deputy negotiating envoy standing behind Xiong Tingbi, couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, "If it weren't for your identity as representing Huang Taiji, would the Grand Marshal welcome you, a traitor with such grand etiquette?"

Although this sentence was very light, a gust of wind blew at that time, and the sound then spread to almost all the officials present. Fan Wencheng naturally heard it clearly. The smile that was still blooming on his face instantly frozen, and he quickly coughed to cover it up.

Xiong Tingbi looked down on Fan Wencheng, and was willing to be a lackey for the Jin people, but on the surface he could not express his inner feelings. Hearing Huang Jin's words, he felt extremely happy, and he greeted with a smile, "Enter Fan came here this time, is it for a matter of peace talks?"

"Of course, my Khan was already full of sincerity and was willing to resolve the hatred between the two countries at the negotiating table, but your court seemed to ignore the sincerity of my Khan. Not only did he expel my negotiating envoy, he also launched an attack and occupied our city. Why is this?" Fan Wencheng asked Xiong Tingbi tepidly.

Xiong Tingbi had already thought about it and smiled and said, "Enter Fan knew that although I was the governor of Liaodong and had great military and political power in Liaodong, when it comes to war and harmony between the two countries, there was this court above. I was an official of the Ming Dynasty, so I had to listen to the court and the emperor!"

"So it is your country's court and the emperor who launched a sneak attack and occupied our Jinzhou City?" Fan Wencheng said with all the words in Xiong Tingbi's words.

"Enter Fan, please find out, Jinzhou was my Ming Dynasty half a year ago, so why did it become yours?" Huang Jin asked angrily.

"Sir, who occupied the world before the Ming Dynasty?" Fan Wencheng was not angry at all and asked Huang Jin while walking.

"Yuan Dynasty? Who doesn't know this?" Huang Jin snorted coldly.

"What before the Yuan Dynasty?"

"Great Song Dynasty!" Huang Jin blurted out.

"As far as Fan knows, the north of the Yangtze River is all the territory of the Great Jin Kingdom. The Song Dynasty you mentioned is just a southern Song Dynasty that is in a corner?" Fan Wencheng smiled.

"What do you mean?" Although Huang Jin's talent and intelligence were not as good as Fan Wencheng, he had already noticed something was wrong at this time, and he seemed to have fallen into the trap of other people's words.

"Genghis Khan destroyed the Great Jin Dynasty, then destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, and established a huge Great Yuan Empire. From then on, the world was the world of the Mongols, and the land and cities were also the Mongols. When the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty, the world changed its surname to Zhu, and the city and land became the Zhu family. Looking at all dynasties, which one of them was not the city that was captured by anyone was the one. After Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu conquered the world, the Mongols said that the world was still mine. If you return him to us, will the Emperor Taizu of your country be returned? Is this possible, sir, do you think this is possible?" Fan Wencheng smiled.

"Absurd, fallacies!" Huang Jin said angrily for some reason.

"The strong prey on the weak is like this special envoy who can only verbally ask your country why it invaded our Jinzhou, but cannot get it back." Fan Wencheng's words were already intentionally sending a signal to Xiong Tingbi and others. Huang Taiji might really have to make concessions this time. He did not send a large army, but directly sent an envoy to negotiate. This change seemed to be a little sudden, and everyone couldn't help but become alert to Fan Wencheng.

"Enter Fan, I heard that you are a descendant of Fan Wenzheng, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty?" Zhou Wenyuan, who had a cold face, inserted himself into the room and asked.

"Yes." No matter how Fan Wencheng is, he will not betray his ancestors.

"That's good. Wen Zhenggong has been a country all his life, and he didn't expect that his descendants would be the same. I really admire him!" Zhou Wenyuan bowed deeply at Fan Wencheng.

The smile on Fan Wencheng's face suddenly couldn't stop. No matter how much he covered it up, he could not erase the pain in his heart. The country his ancestors were loyal to was Han, but he was a minister to the Jin people. Although the other party did not mention it or called him a traitor, it was actually more uncomfortable than calling him a traitor.

When Xiong Tingbi saw the scene suddenly cold, he hurriedly called Fan Wencheng and others to rest in the city first and welcome the people.

Xiong Tingbi and Liu Hongxun exchanged views, and at the moment they could not grasp the truth and reality of Fan Wencheng and Huang Taiji, arranged the person in a wealthy businessman's villa in Jinzhou City, sent people to monitor him closely, and submitted memorials to Zhu Yinglong overnight.

Zhu Yinglong had been unable to eat well and sleep well for three days after receiving the news of the capture of Jinzhou. He was happy and worried. He was happy that the recovery of Jinzhou would surely inspire the people of the country. He was worried that the Jin Dynasty would not be able to move at all in three consecutive days. In addition, the 15,000 soldiers who had originally come out of Liaoyang to aid Jinzhou were retreated in a row. This aggravated his concern. He was worried that he would take down Jinzhou and hurt Huang Taiji, and mobilized a large army to attack Jinzhou again, causing Liaodong to fall into the quagmire of war again, leaving him without time to solve his internal worries.

Now, Huang Taiji has indeed compromised and sent Fan Wencheng, a very relied on Han minister, to negotiate. It is estimated that this peace talks will be successful. As for Xiong Tingbi and others who are worried that there is a fraud, they need to be careful to prevent it. Zhu Yinglong thought about it carefully. This may be very likely. Whoever relaxes at this time will lose. So he approved Xiong Tingbi, Liu Hongxun and others, so that they can be vigilant and not slack at all. They must determine the true intention of the Later Jin Dynasty.

However, before the result, Zhu Yinglong kept suppressing Xiong Tingbi's battle report and did not inform the ministers to avoid causing unnecessary trouble. However, it was impossible to suppress it. There was news in the capital that the court had recovered Jinzhou. To put it bluntly, this operation was commanded by the emperor, the emperor. Only a few ministers in the court knew that in this information was not yet developed, the ministers were still in the dark. Although they also heard some rumors in the market, the rumors had not reached a point of flooding. Even if they were a little suspicious and without conclusive news, they would not dare to run to the emperor to talk nonsense!

Zhu Yinglong attached great importance to this year's spring exam. He wanted to find some talented students who came to Beijing to participate in the spring exam. However, due to the serious fraud in the imperial examination, he could not correct the eight-part essay exam for the imperial examination for a while, and he was not ignorant. Therefore, the questions for the three exams were asked to be drawn by several ministers in the cabinet to draw the questions from the box. In this way, even if more than a dozen questions were leaked, even if someone did all these questions, he could not bring them all in. Moreover, the discipline of the examination room this year was stricter. The court provided all the cost of the examination for the students. He did not need to bring any of the four treasures of the study, just bring them in, and he had to take off his body and search, which made it even more difficult to cheat.

Zhu Yinglong even personally inspected the first exam on the ninth day of the third month. This was the first time that thousands of students saw the emperor's true face. Several of them almost fainted excitedly because Zhu Yinglong went to grind ink for them. Even if he failed the exam, he could still be a glorious person.

Zhu Yinglong also has an idea. Those who failed the exam this year will keep them all, half of them entered Peking University and half entered Tsinghua University to train them directly. Young people are not so old-fashioned, flexible in mind, and easy to accept new things. For new theories, Zhu Yinglong is preparing to replace the existing Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism with a new theories. He is currently planning with Huang Zunsu and a few young people.

The relocation of Wang Gongchang was successfully started because of the emperor's own pocket. The ministers in the court who had originally opposed it were not easy to say anything, especially Sun Shenxing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He originally opposed it, but now he felt a little guilty. Now it seems that it is not the court who is desperately in charge of the emperor's money, but the emperor is desperately spending money for the country. They know where the emperor's money comes from. Shi Kefa, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, was the first to know. There were suddenly so many imperial items from the palace in Beijing. How could it not cause this Beijing parent official to be
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